A friend recently asked if I ever feel life is futile. My first thought: “You mean that permanent feeling on my mental horizon?” Here’s how I live with it.
Category archives: Pain and Recovery
Light against darkness, hope against hope
What do you do when it feels like all hope is lost? You can hope on, anyway.
Dealing with pain? Try distraction.
What’s the difference between repression and suppression, between denial and distraction? Join me to explore how we deal with emotional pain.
Let us lament
The world has always felt broken, if you’ve been paying attention, but this year feels particularly so. And in the midst of it all, I’ve come to find a deeper appreciation of lament. Join me.
The past is very present
We think of time as an obstacle, as something in our way.
What if it instead as THE way—as the thing that gets us where we want to be?
Two kinds of strength
What do we mean when we say people are “strong”? What are we really saying?
Avengers: Endgame: time heists, trauma and therapy
The MCU finale as a metaphor for trauma and therapy
How I recentre after an emotional flat tyre
And what my new glasses have to do with it I get rather frequent emotional flat tyres. That’s how I like to describe those times (more frequent than I’d like) when my mood drops and I feel rather slower than usual, and find myself struggling with less savoury thoughts about myself and the world. (Yeah, being …
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The RISE Manifesto: a call to think differently about health problems
What if there’s a better way to think about health problems than simply chasing cures? I believe there is: I call it the RISE Way. The RISE Way: because there’s more to brief illnesses and persistent conditions than just time. This is a manifesto about health problems. Or more specifically, about the problem with how we …
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Chester Bennington taught me to scream
A tribute to the man who gave me a soundtrack for a difficult time. When I heard, yesterday, of Chester Bennington’s passing, I felt a hollowness within. Linkin Park’s music (especially their debut Hybrid Theory album) helped define a major inflection point in my life and growth. I’ve struggled with existential questions since childhood, and …